Product Description

Follow-up to 2001's 'Ghetto Fabolous' from Brookyn hip hop artist John Jackson aka Fabolous. 'Street Dreams' which was produced by DJ Clue, is representative of the East Coast rapstyle with a large dose of gangsta rap and the 'bling bling' mentality often associated with the likes of P. Diddy & The Notorious BIG. Includes the lead single 'Can't Let You Go'featuring Mikey Shore and Lil' Mo. Other artists who appearon the album include Missy Elliott, Ashanti, Snoop Dogg, P.Diddy and Mary J. Blige.

Track Listing

1. Intro
2. Not Give A Fuck
3. Damn
4. Call Me
5. Can't Let You Go - Fabolous & Mike Shorey/Lil' Mo
6. Bad Bitch
7. Why Wouldn't I - Fabolous & Paul Cain
8. Up On Things - Fabolous & Snoop Dogg
9. Sickalicious - Fabolous & Missy Elliott
10. This Is My Party
11. Into You - Fabolous & Ashanti
12. Change You Or Change Me
13. Respect
14. Forgive Me Father
15. Never Duplicated
16. Wake Up
17. My Life - Fabolous & Mary J. Blige
18. Throw Back
19. Keepin' It Gangsta - Fabolous & Styles/Jadakiss/MOP
20. Trade It All - Fabolous & P Diddy/Jagged Edge

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24271 in Music
• Released on: 2003-03-31
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Fabolous would have us believe he's serving up Street Dreams, but the Brooklyn rapper's sophomore effort is more likely to rock the party than shake the boulevards. The F.A.B.O.'s smooth, deadpan flow cruises over benignly commercial beats (courtesy of Clue, Just Blaze and Kanye West among others), and the overall effect isn’t hard enough to stand up to "official" street-issue hip-hop (think any M.O.P. release). Sure, Fabolous is not without charm. His straightforward delivery of the never-too-deep subject matter enhances slinky, slangy club joints such as the Track Masters-produced "Damn" and the R&B-inflected ballads "Can't Let You Go" and "Trade It All Part 2". The album also features solid guest appearances by Missy Elliott (the electro-funky "Sickalicious"), Mary J Blige (a retooling of her classic "What's the 411" entitled "My Life"), and pop princess Ashanti ("Into You"), but the entire proceedings are stolen by the aforementioned M.O.P., whose verses on "Keepin' It Gangsta" illustrate what street is really all about. --Rebecca Levine

Customer Reviews

REALLY REALLY GOOD!!
This is my 1st Fabolous purchase and it's great! Every track is either outstanding or very good. I hadn't even heard the singles "Can't Let You Go" & "Into You ft Tamia" but they are both brilliant! "Into You" is so brilliant for some reason, can't get enough! Really nice track!

The only tracks I'd leave off would be "Respect" (good but bad lyrics especially in the chorus) and "My Life" (in which Mary J Blige samples Jennifer Lopez's "All I Have"- quite dull)

But it's a really brilliant album and way better than "Real Talk"

Not quiet a dream album
I first heard Fabolous on Sheek Louch' "Kiss your ass good bye remix" in which he was ok but didn't stand out. When I saw this album in HMV for a fiver I looked at it the features on Keepin it gangsta were enough for me to buy it. The intro is just DJ clue yelling skip it. Not give a F*** is an impressive opener good beat nice chorus and the rhymes are good as well. The next track is very weak. Damn has a wick beat and the chorus is annoying. The line "let's roast some spinach" is a sample of how bad the rhymes are. Skip it. Call me is quiet commercial and not that good but some might like it if you really like commercial stuff but for me it's very average. Cant let you go is very good for a commercial love song and just as a song in general. The chorus is on point and very nice duet singing between lil' mo and Mike Shorey. Fabolous has some nice rhyming here with some couplets and multi syllabic raps. Skip the next song and go onto why wouldn't I its just nice rapping and a nice chorus, beat could be better. Now skip the next3 tracks (there all filler) and go onto track twelve Into you with Ashanti quality song with nice rapping from Fab and Ashanti singing sweetly on the chorus.

Change you or change me is a rap about how Fab hasn't changed nice rapping and a more street song. now skip all the way to track seven with the bonus cut throw it back is a weak track but keepin it gangsta is very good with sweet rapping from all and the most gangsta track on the album. Trade it all is a very good commercial track with jagged edge and diddy. Very nice track and they got a good ghost writer for diddy. Into you with Tamia is the same song as the one with Ashanti but tamia is the original girl on the track as it is a sample from her song so into you (I think that's the right title) but this is the better version (im a huge Murder inc fan but Ashanti wasn't used well on the track) but a very nice way to end the album.

Overall this is quiet a weak album because of all the filler Fabolous does have his moment s but in general isn't that skilled a rapper. The production on some tracks is very weak as well. I recommend the following tracks and that's it.

Not give a F***
Cant let you go
Keepin it gangsta
Trade it all
Into you with tamia

Those tracks are all very good but this album only gets 3 stars for those tracks plus a couple more I don't see Fabolous improving but I'm not going to hate on him as he is cool with Jadakiss and D block whoa re quality rappers. He's a bit too commercial and his street tracks aren't that good few rappers can be cross over artist and fabolous won't be around in 10 years or remembered. check out Sheek louch After taxes as I got it a week before this and was so much better Fab is just another artist contributing to the death of hip hop (Hip Hop is dead is also a great album so check it out)

Peace
Its murdaa

More good stuff from the commercial king
This has a more street feel than other fab albums. Picked this up a few months back in a bargain bin, i'd heard some tracks before and liked them.
If you like to listen to rap while relaxing this is good as it is quite easy to listen to.
Reccomended-Fans of Nelly